Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Explosion

and under international law,
Japan's strike on Pearl Harbour was a legitimate military target under the Geneva conventions of war.
America's attack on Pearl Harbour was against civilians and the worst terrorist attack or war crime in the history of humanity.
You must be ignorant of the law and your own conscience to call the two equal.

Bernberg is right
Again, I am from Oahu (Pearl Harbor) and the attack was within the international law guidelines right out of the book. In order for a war politics already agreed based on what each country deemed as a threat or violation of some type. during this time the pacific was open house to whom ever wanted to take over to rule what the U.N. /Geneva convention considered non soverien (country to intself), if you want more go look it up. During 1940 the U.S. forced a take over of the Hawaiian islands to secure the harbor before the Japanese do. the take over forced Hawaii to become a state of U.S. which is internationally illegal but the U.N. desregards the case today that due to the circumstance Hawaii is technically not a true state of the U.S. and will not accept the case.

Be educated not indoctrinated. Japan was warned before each strike.

isn't strange after all Japan still kissing ..... for US ?!!!

From the research I found that before pearl harbour the U.S was aggrivatin japan on a number of levels trying to force Japan to attack them thus dragging them into the war. Even before pearl harbor they have documented proof of the president getting word that the japan kamikazee fighters were heading for pearl harbor and the president ordered the military not to stop them from attacking...

There's more to pearl harbour than you think. Not to mention 1 country attacking another countries "NAVAL BASE" is not even on the same platform as nuking hundreds of thousands of innocent people intentinally and directly.

Dont try to justify what America did because it is unjustifiable. They did not even make an attempt to fight Japan they simply massacred their "CIVILIAN" population.

the japenese plundered, enslaved, robbed, raped, and killed 10s of millions of innocent civillians. The U.S. dropped flyers over both cities before the bombings warning them to leave, thier government woulden't let them. The choice came down to an invasion of the Japanese homeland which would have cost both the Japanese and americans MILLIONS of additional casulties both military and civilian or dropping A bombs on war industrial centers. The Nazis were working on the A bomb too perhaps you would have perfered they developed it first. Before spouting your ignorant Anti-American garbage pick up a history book. Don't forget that the distruction of those cities and the horor it showed has prevented atomic weapons from being used in war again. The developer diden't understand percisely what they had and most invloved felt great shame for the rest of their lives. This research you did didn't happen to mention their were no kamakazies at pearl harbor they dident come about till early 1944 your right there is more to the attack but i dont think you researched anything.

I didn't know that, I'll google it but I find that hard to belive they dropped flyers over the cities because in those days the planes couldn't get there and back on their fuel load.

So just how did the Enola Gay make it back?

even if they americans did antagonise japan into attacking them to get them in the war, i'm glad they did, they were the only reason us europeans are not speakin german, they did it for the greater good, lets face it the germans waltzed thru europe an hit a bit of a wall when they got here to the uk, we only made real headway after pearl harbour an the yanks got involved.

You are an ignorant fool-a typical American hater. You always talk about "proof" but you never reveal what this proof is. What idiot would say that "they did not even make an attempt to fight Japan they simply wanted to massacre their civilian populatiion." Idiots like you never learn the truth because the truth does not fit into your neat American hater life.

politicians wage wars they never fight. innocent people are killed in these wars which they never started themselves. i suggest we assasinate those politicians who suggest killing innocent pple even if in our own countries, then we can have peace.

We ended it..

It is told that the japanise military log book registers a attack by the US navy in the pacific ocean killing hundreds of soilders who went in four nuclear submarines to attack the german force. The US navy attacked the japanise subs thinking that they are going to attack the USA soil. The sad thing is that when the US navy communicated the japanise subs they contacted in english while no one in the sub could understand english. there stated the war between japan and US. and perl harbour was a result of that. ' why would no one think that why would someone want to wake up the sleeping gaint. that too with such pain.and effort.

Talk about rewriting history. You are saying that the Japanese attacked their allies, the Germans in "Nuclear Submarines". C'mon!

all You you stupid amrecan do change history or try to. What the Japs did was nothing with what u assholes did. Are u trying to say that a few amrecans lifes equles the number that was killed in Japan no fuckingway.
don't worry as your stupid country is going down people read history their way and one of thoes days will pay back u.

The next frickin time someone invades your country..try calling Russia and see if they will come to your aid ass wipe..The frickin Japs were already taking over our Aluetian Islands off the coast of Alaska..go reread your history books ya puss!!!

Well seeing you've mentioned the other country's a B*&#H ,seems as though the other country's rather more moraly superior than a BULLY and speaking of which what happened in Vietnam?

was a US police action to stop the Viet Cong.
Of the innocent people who died in Vietnam, the vast majority were killed by the Viet Cong, the rest killed by the south vietnamese or USA were largely the result of bombing missions gone wrong due to bad intel or deliberate deception by the enemy.
As to US soldiers who committed atrocities there, I do not pardon them - I spit on them as the thoughtless idiots who gave the rest of our guys a bad name.
However, they were exceptions to the rule - most of the soldiers over there fought and died to keep another country free, only to have it all thrown away by a series of dingbats in the White House who cared more aboout looking good in the polls than winning the war.

CAlled 'air burst' - much more distructive especially to structures - so a few Japs got in the way

Point well taken,do you think any person in their right mind would want to fight somebody or something so far away from home which is not even a threat,but only a US government greed for oil, drop one the Govrnment, the world will be at ease.

But if we started nuking people, we ourselves would be nuked, and it would be an all out nuke war. No survivors. Well, maybe very few survivors, but then a nuke winter would happen. For years the earth's temperature would be below freezing. Also, a lot of people would freeze. Many of the few survivors would starve to death, unless tons and tons of canned food was stored a mile or two underground.
I wonder what the earth's atmosphere would be like. Big freaking hole in the ozone layer. I also wonder if all of the oxygen would be burned up from all of the blasts. The uninhabitable planet all over again.
What do you think would happen if we used our nuclear weapons?

like a way to prevent global warming

He's dead

English please. Not all of us speak or read multi languages. A little help please.

is a very old man that has NIGHTMARES, but the atrocity saved millions of lives

The pilot committed suicide, but the guy who actually dropped the bomb never had a moment's regret.

Mr. goat sucker, maybe we should learn how messed up the nukes are. There should be nuclear missiles only to be used to protect the earth from alleged invaders from outer space, and other things that might threaten earth.
There has been enough tragedy for all mankind. No one wants to see their sons and daughters die in war.

I forgive you for your childlike innocence and naivety. Of course no one wants their sons and daughters to die in wars. But there are bad people out there who are more then willing to take the lives of our sons and daughters without caring a whit for what you "want". Grow up, and take off your rose colored glasses.

and am grown up. I see what you are saying, but I am only dreaming idealistically what things would be like in a more perfect world.
Not blowing up the world with the nuclear missiles we have I would want to happen. We have enough firepower to completely vaporize the planet 47 times. I happen to have served in the military, the necessary evil, and know there is not a viable solution for world peace.
There will always be an asshole wanting to start trouble or bomb a country arbitrarily. In my time I have seen some ugly stuff, and only HOPE someday mankind evolves into peaceful creatures. Start with the man in the mirror...maybe others will follow the example.

I stand with you

Oh! That is why America wants to colonized Mars so that someday if majority of nations do not trust anymore the ideologies of the Americans, they will just fired up or vaporized the earth and Americans will just simply escape to Mars as their new home of refuge? Hmmmm.... Bad American interest.

but unrealistic. You want peace? Then the only way to guarantee it is to convince all your potential enemies that the price for attacking you will be utter, absolute annihilation.

Consider the following:
Pretend for a moment that the official policy of the United States of America with regard to acts of terrorism perpetrated upon her citizens was to obliterate every single living relative of the attacker up to 4 times removed. Essentially, the entire branch of the attackers family tree was eliminated. Do you honestly believe we would be the victims of terror?

Before you recoil in horror at this thought, know this: This was, in effect, the official policy of the ancient Romans towards the Middle East. Read about the Emperor Tiberius.

and for sure sure no one would agree ultimately. Wanting peace is probably futile. Or maybe the people would agree, and then turn around and arm more nukes, and then blast the blazes out of the US. Really, though, utter vaporization would be the outcome if there were ever a nuclear war. No one would win.

The whole, entire planet, (forgive my being redundant) would lose.
BTW, "The Roman Emperors" is a good read.

I guess war will always be around until mankind destroys earth with the weapons we have that are powerful enough to blow it up 47 times.

but the life of an other highly more intellegent species is okay?

I am not sure where you are from, but English has a different bit of hard to spell words. While I am pretty sure you are the best educated person in your village, I wonder how you got electricity for your computer. If you live elsewhere, learn to live. Hate shows ignorance. Wise up.

Instead of becoming hero, killing a million innocents. You better go to hell. There you have your family and your likes with whom you can play this game. I feel sorry for pity Japanese.

Blame Emperor Hirhito. He was told that we had a weapon capable of massive destruction. He was told that if he did not surrender, we would use that weapon against Japan. Hirohito basically said that he didn't believe us, so we dropped it on Hiroshima. We then told him that we had another bomb and that Japan had better surrender or we would drop it as well. Hirohito didn't believe we had another and refused. Boom, we bombed Nagasaki. About this time, Hirohito got the message and surrendered. Furthermore, the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were warned well in advance that their cities would be targeted. But, the good Ol' Japanese propagandists told them that we were just bluffing and they need not fear us. BZZZZZT, wrong answer!

We (the USA) have a bad habit of meddling in the affairs of other countries. And when when those countries get pissed at us for sticking our nose into things, they "bite back".

So really, its our own fault, and I totally agree that the US Government is a bunch of butchers.

It's sad that after all the wars we've been through, we still haven't learned to stop sticking our noses where it don't belong. Let other countries deal with their own problems. We have enough problems of our own to deal with!!!!!

Japan attacked us was because they were allies with Hitler. We attacked Hitler because he was taking over countries, murdering thousands of Jews, and killing our allies. Would you allow some bitch like that murder ppl for no reason?

I can't believe how you youngsters buy whatever socialist anti-American trash your Communist Professors spew. Read the information published at the time (not some crap that has been filtered to paint the picture the author wants you to believe). Challenge people who claim to be giving you "facts" to cite their sources. Quit believing people just because they hold a position of esteem at a University. Remember: People that Can, Do. People that Can't, Teach.

So id Japan. They killed innocents in pearl harbour. Killing humanity and started the war in the asian theater

They killed navy troops, people who would probably go to war, not children, women, babys, Amercians just DESTROYED A WHOLE CITY, and EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE inside it, most of them civilians.

but Hirohito started the mess and reused to surrender after being warned. I hate to sound like a jerk, but the bomb actually saved millions of lives.
My heart goes out to the innocents that lost their lives, though. There is blood and dirt on both sides, so why don't we go on, and try not to make the same mistakes again. Everybody's families were hurt. There should be an end to war and terrorist attacks so we could all peacefully co-exist.

Until after they had attacked Pearl Habor.
Being at war as a country is different than sitting around watching the war go on around you and then having someone attack.

If you were a boxer and in the ring you know you are going to get hit.
If you are a spectator and then the boxer comes out of the ring and punches you while you are just watching do you really expect that?

Get a clue PPL.

this comment show much you are Cowards

we dont hide amongst civillians. Hide who we are. or where we are. were far from cowards. unlike some others.

yeah right to the idiot saying we should of done this in Iraq. Then gas prices would be 10 times present prices. You must be about 12 years old right ?

10 times the current gas price would be quite high. but, have u lost any loved ones that were trying to help those unappreciatave people much less 3,000 plus U.S. soldiers. Plus USA spends how many billions being over there. who pays that bill. we do, maybe not at the pump but we do. And u have the balls to call me WHAT?

Iran, and Afghanistan.

them too. as well as a couple others

dickhead

But 100 percent Honest

Nice, Very nice. Your people kill innocent women and children all the time and everyday. Does the size of the bomb really matter if you constantly have a suicide bomb targetting civilians on a bus, in a church, in a store, at the police station, or anywhere else. Yeah who are the real modern day Terrorist.

So I supose you all belive Saddam and Hitler were Holly men for their killing of hondreds of thousands of civilians. Sadam was at war with his own country men and women. There are still thousands yet to be found from mass graves of all the people he killed.

The Japanese ruined their own country by listening to Tojo. Read what they did to the Chinese in Manchuria, or the Americans in the Phillipines. And if it weren't for us Americans, the world would have fallen to hitler, mussolini, and tojo.

Your welcome.

We're nobody's peacekeeper. We're the guys who got sucker punched at Pearl Harbor. And we're also the guys who made the Japanese regret poking a stick at the big dog. You don't want us to nuke you? No problem. Don't start crap you can't finish.

I suppose that all that fought to protect you, too. You think I do not cry for the innocent victims? Yes, that was horrible, but it saved millions of lives. Maybe even yours. Your parents lives may have been saved.
Yes, I am a US veteran that probably protected you, and your right to be a racist.

If we hadn't have dropped that bomb, our troops would have had to further invade Japan. By dropping the bombs, we made Japan surrender.

You are so right on this. It came from a discussion between my sister and me. She was amazed that I would have used the bomb as well. Actually, I would have started in Korea, and then move on.

yoo...listen up ppl..!! first of all...wat the US did was really heartless..!! the effect this mothafukin explosion lasted for years..!! it left Japan wid epidemic diseases for more than a decade...new borns had to b killed coz the disease would spread even if they lived..!! was the effect in Pearl Harbour this much??well..not tht i know of..!! n guess wat...?? look at where the Japanese are right now..?? hahaha... how ironic..aint it?? Hats off to Japan..!!!

First off your writing shows you have little or no useable intelligence, you are the uneducated reason that America will lose its stance as a superpower in the world. As far as the nuking of Japan. If we didn't do it and they had the ability to do it themselves... Well... It would be you with the deranged toes, and they wouldn't have even had people in their country debating how humane it was.

Why don't you grab that can of cheeze whiz and go back to your room now so the adults can talk?

Hmmm?

There you go. Good Boy.